JPS6371067A - Aligning device for paper - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To contain subsequent bank notes in a state in that the notes are reliably orderly arranged even if some of the contained bank notes have a folded corner part, by a method wherein an escape part is formed to a portion positioned facing the corner part of the bank note on a stacker plate. CONSTITUTION:When a folded corner part is positioned on the side on which a chuck member 16 faces, since no stack plate 1 is situated to this portion, with the progress of lowering of a bank note B entering a folded corner part, the folded corner part is unfolded, and its correction is carried out. Further, in the case of corner folding of an end part in a reverse direction, since an escape part 17 is formed to this portion of the stacker plate 1, with the progress of entering of the subsequent bank note B to the interior of a bank note containing part 3, a folded corner part F of the preceding bank note B is pressed by the end part of the subsequent bank note B and is unfolded in the direction of the escaping part 17 side, and the folded part F is stretched for correction. This constitution causes reliable turing of the end parts of the contained bank notes B, and prevents the occurence of a trouble.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial Application Field] The present invention relates to a paper sheet sorting device for sorting paper sheets such as banknotes in a predetermined number of sheets.

[Prior Art] Financial institutions such as banks use depositing and organizing devices to automate the depositing and sorting of banknotes. This deposit and sorting device has a hopper section into which banknotes are input, and a processing section that performs processing such as counting the number of banknotes, distinguishing the denomination, etc., and reversing the front and back sides of the banknotes. are stacked in a predetermined number and can be bundled and bound. Here, the depositing and organizing device is provided with a bill sorting device in order to arrange a predetermined number of deposited bills and organize them in a state that allows them to be bundled.

This banknote sorting device usually consists of a banknote storage section that stores banknotes, and a conveyance means including a conveyance belt, a conveyance roller, etc., which feeds deposited banknotes into the banknote storage section. There are two types of banknote storage units: one in which banknotes are stored in a stacked state, and the other in which banknotes are stored side by side in an upright position. Later, it was widely used because it was convenient for feeding a predetermined number of sheets into a banding device that bundled them with banding tape.

In such a sorting device that stores banknotes in an upright state, the banknote storage section is provided with two star plates and a receiving plate facing each other, and the receiving plate is placed against the stacker plate. The conveying means, which is movable in the directions of approaching and separating, and for feeding the banknotes into the banknote storage section, is installed on the side of the stacker plate. The stacker plate is wide open on one side in the transport direction of banknotes so that the chuck means for taking out a predetermined number of stored banknotes can be seen, and on the other side, the banknotes are In order to prevent as much as possible the banknote from being caught in the conveying means, it is configured to extend to a position close to the edge of the banknote.

[Problems to be Solved by the Invention] By the way, the banknotes processed in the above-mentioned depositing and sorting device include not only new banknotes but also used banknotes, and some of the used banknotes may be in a folded state. There are times when If this fold is large, it will be checked by a banknote identification department, etc., and will not be carried into the banknote storage unit, but if there is a slight bend in a corner, this The banknotes are conveyed without being checked by the banknote storage unit, etc., and are stored in the banknote storage unit. Even if a banknote has a folded corner, there may be no particular problem in storing and organizing the banknote in the banknote storage section, but if the folded corner is facing the stacker board, subsequent banknotes may not be fed in. Sometimes, it ends up getting inside this corner fold.

If this situation occurs, not only will some of the banknotes become slanted and it will not be possible to arrange them completely, but also the slanted banknotes will be damaged during the next process of bundling. There is.

The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and even if the paper sheets stored in the paper sheet storage section have folded corners, subsequent banknotes can be stored with the edges reliably arranged. The object of the present invention is to provide a device for organizing paper sheets.

[Means for Solving the Problems 1] In order to achieve the above-mentioned object, the present invention provides a stacker plate with receiving plates facing each other to store a predetermined number of sheets in an upright state between them. A paper sheet storage section is formed, and a conveying means for feeding paper sheets toward the paper sheet storage section is provided on the arrangement side of the stacker plate, and a portion of the stacker board facing a corner of the paper sheets. A feature of the present invention is that a relief part is formed to allow a folded corner portion of a previously stored sheet facing toward the stacker plate to be corrected by a subsequent sheet. It is.

[Operation 1] When a sheet is fed by the conveying means toward the sheet storage section between the stacker plate and the receiving plate, the sheet is stored in the sheet storage section in an upright state. When the amount of paper sheets stored increases, by separating the receiving plate from the stacker plate, it becomes possible to store a predetermined number of sheets in the paper sheet storage section. When a predetermined number of sheets are stacked in an orderly manner in the sheet storage section in this manner, they can be taken out from the sheet storage section and bundled by means such as banding.

However, among the paper sheets conveyed by the conveyance means,
For example, some of the corners may be bent, and if the corners are bent toward the receiving plate, this will not cause any particular difficulty in tidying up the edges of the paper sheets, so the paper sheets may be left as they are. It is stored in the storage section. However, when a folded sheet is stored on the side facing the stacker board, the end of the next paper sheet to be conveyed gets into the folded part of the corner-folded sheet, and as a result, the corner-folded part is folded into the stacker board. It will expand to the side. Here, since the stacker plate is formed with a relief portion that allows the folded corner portion to widen, such an operation can be freely performed, and the folded corner portion can be corrected. As a result, the edges of the paper sheets stored in the paper storage section are aligned accurately, which is extremely convenient when bundling a predetermined number of paper sheets using a banding method or other means in the subsequent process. , there is no risk of damage to paper sheets.

[Embodiment 1] Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

In this embodiment, the paper sheet sorting device is configured as a bill depositing and sorting device for depositing and sorting banknotes. A series of operations are now performed, in which a predetermined number of banknotes are transported through a processing unit that counts and discriminates them, and then a predetermined number of banknotes are bundled into bundles. The apparatus for depositing banknotes, counting them, validating them, etc., and the apparatus for bundling them are conventionally known, so illustrations and explanations thereof will be omitted. However, the banknote sorting device is generally composed of a banknote storage unit that stacks banknotes, and a conveyance unit that feeds the banknotes into the banknote storage unit.

Therefore, in FIGS. 1 and 2, l is a stacker plate,
2 indicates a receiving plate, and the stacker plate 1 and receiving plate 2 are
A banknote storage section 3 is formed between the banknotes and the banknotes for storing deposited banknotes that have been subjected to processing such as counting and discrimination.

The stacker plate l has a vertical plate part 1a at the lower part and an inclined plate part 1b at the upper part, and the inclined plate part 1b is provided with a plurality of notches 4, and a processing part for counting and discrimination from the hopper part. A conveyor belt 5 that conveys banknotes B through the notch 4 is extended to a position within this notch 4. A feed roller 8 is attached to a rotary shaft 7 on which a pulley 6 is attached, which forms the terminal end of the banknote conveyance path on the conveyor belt 5. A feed roller 9 is also disposed below the feed roller 8. These feed rollers 8.9 are arranged so that banknotes can be fed into the banknote storage section 3. In order to rotationally drive the feed roller 9, a pulley 11 is attached to the rotating shaft 10, and a pulley 12 is also attached to the rotating shaft 7, and a transmission belt 13 is wound between each pulley 11, 12. It is set up by rotating.

The paper i'RB is sequentially stored in the banknote storage section 3 as described above, but in order to smoothly guide the banknotes B into the banknote storage section 3, the height of the receiving plate 3 is adjusted perpendicular to the stacker plate 1. It is higher than the height of the plate portion 1a. In addition, in order to increase the volume of the banknote storage section 3 according to the amount of banknotes stored,
The receiving plate 2 is movable toward and away from the stacker plate l. Further, in order to generate the feeding torque of the feeding rollers 8, 8 to the banknotes, the receiving plate 2
is always urged by a spring 14 in a direction approaching the stunning force plate 1. On the other hand, when a predetermined number of banknotes B are stored in the banknote storage section 3, this paper Fl! The paper WJB is taken out from the banknote storage section 3 and wrapped in a band. In order to prevent the above-mentioned spring 14 from creating resistance when the paper WJB is delivered to the banding section, a receiving plate 2 is provided. A solenoid 15 is connected to the solenoid 15 for separating the banknote B from the banknote B in the banknote storage section 3.

Thus, one side of the vertical plate portion 1a of the stacker portion 1 in the banknote conveying direction is configured to open a portion near the end of the stored banknotes so that the chuck member 16 can be exposed thereto. . On the other hand, the other side of the vertical plate portion 1a has a length that allows it to come into contact with the portion of the stored banknotes up to the vicinity of the end, in order to prevent the stored banknotes from being caught in the feed roller 9. There is. However, the vertical plate portion 1a
A relief part 17 is formed by cutting out the lower end corner of the other end of the plate, and a regulating plate 1 is provided in the inner part of the relief part 17 to prevent the stored banknotes from being caught.
8 can be attached.

This embodiment is constructed as described above, and its operation will be explained next.

Then, the paper i'l was thrown in from the hopper section! The FBs are transported via the transport belt 5, counted and
After undergoing processing such as identification, the banknotes are guided to the banknote storage section 3,
The paper money is fed into the bill storage section 3 by the feed rollers 8,8. At this time, since the biasing force of the spring 14 is acting on the receiving plate 2, one banknote is sufficiently pushed by the feed rollers 8 and 9, so that the banknote is reliably fed and the banknote B is stored. Depending on the amount, it will be displaced in a direction away from the stacker plate 1 against the biasing force of the spring 14.

When a predetermined number of banknotes are fed into the banknote storage unit 3, the solenoid 15 is activated to separate the receiving plate 2 from the banknotes, and the chuck member 16 is activated to remove the banknotes in the banknote storage unit 3. It is taken out and sent to the banding section, where the banding operation is performed.

However, some of the banknotes processed by this banknote deposit sorting device are old and have a tendency to bend, so it is difficult to put them through this device in an actually folded state. There is. Most of these folded banknotes are detected during the verification process.
It will be discharged from the conveyance path, but if, for example, a corner is slightly bent, it will not be detected even after the above-mentioned identification process, and it will be discharged from the conveyance path as it is. The banknotes are conveyed along the banknotes to the banknote storage section 3.

However, even if there is a corner-folded bill like this, even if it is folded toward the side facing the receiving plate 2 or folded toward the stacker plate 1 side, the banknote cannot be stored in an upright position. Sometimes, when it is in the upper position, it does not cause any trouble when organizing the bills so that their ends are aligned in the bill storage section 3 or when taking them out from the bill storage section 3 and bundling them.

However, if the folded corner part faces the stacker plate 1 and is located at the bottom, the end of the bill B to be stored in the bill storage section 3 next to the folded corner bill will be placed in this position. It may get inside the bent corners. Here, if the corner folded part is located on the side facing the chuck member 16, the stacker plate 1 is not provided in this part, so as the banknote B that has entered the corner folded part descends, the corresponding The bent corner will be widened and corrected.

Further, even if there is a corner fold at the end opposite to the side facing the chuck member 16 and the next banknote may enter the corner fold F as described above, this part of the stacker plate 1 Since the relief part 17 is formed,
As shown in FIG. 3, as the subsequent banknote B enters into the banknote storage section 3, the bent corner F of the preceding banknote B is pushed by the end of the subsequent banknote B, and the escape part It will expand toward the 17 side, and the corner folded portion F will be stretched and corrected. Therefore, the edges of the banknotes B stored in the banknote storage section 3 are reliably aligned, and the inconvenience of being held in a partially slanted state does not occur. As a result, the subsequent bundling process can be carried out smoothly, and there is no risk of damaging the banknotes B during the bundling process.

Here, as described above, if an opening such as the relief part 17 is provided in the vertical plate part 1a of the stacker plate 1, there is a risk that the transported banknote B may be caught in the feed roller 9 side depending on the attitude thereof. be. However, in such a bill depositing and sorting device, the discrimination process is performed while the bill B is guided into the bill storage section 3, so when performing the discrimination process, Items with severe creases are removed in advance. Therefore, since the objects that pass through this identification processing section have slight corner bends, the escape section 17 is formed to have a size and shape that can correct this slight corner bend. As a result, there is no risk that the transported banknotes will be caught on the feed roller 9 side. Furthermore, even if the bill B gets caught in the relief part 17, since a regulating plate is installed in the inner part of the escape part 17, the entrainment will be regulated by the regulating plate 18. become.

In the above-mentioned embodiment, the paper sheet sorting device was shown as a part of the banknote depositing and sorting device, but the point is that the paper sheet sorting device is a paper sheet sorting device that constitutes a part of the bill depositing and sorting device. If it is equipped with a storage section, it can be used in addition to the above-mentioned banknotes.For example, in a device that bundles a predetermined number of printed paper sheets, if a corner is bent due to some reason during the printing process, it can be used to correct it. can also be used. Furthermore, if the relief portion 17 is formed to have a sufficiently small size and shape,
It is not necessarily necessary to provide the regulating plate 18. Further, although the regulating plate 18 is shown as being formed separately from the stacker plate and fixed to the main body of the apparatus, as shown in FIG.
The regulation plate 18' may be provided integrally with the stacker plate. Furthermore, when using a structure in which the chuck member is not exposed, relief parts may be formed at both ends of the stacker plate.

[Effects of the Invention 1] As detailed above, according to the present invention, since the stacker plate is provided with a bent portion, even if there is a folded corner in the sheet already stored in the sheet storage portion, There is no possibility that the next stored filter paper sheet will enter into this corner folded portion and be stored in an oblique state, resulting in the inconvenience that the end portions will be uneven.

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

1 to 3 show one embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram of the main part configuration, FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the main part, FIG. 3 is an action explanatory diagram, and FIG. FIG. 7 is an enlarged view of a main part showing a modified example of a regulating plate. 1 stacker plate, 2: receiving plate, 3: banknote storage section, 5: conveyor belt, 8, 9: feed roller, 17 = relief section, 18:
Regulation plate, B: Banknote, F: Corner folded part.

Claims (4)

[Claims] (1) By arranging the receiving plate opposite to the stacker plate,
A paper sheet storage section for storing a predetermined number of paper sheets in an upright state is formed between them, and a conveyance means is provided on the side where the stacker plate is provided for feeding the paper sheets toward the paper sheet storage section. In the sorting device of the above-mentioned type, the folded corner portion of the previously stored paper facing toward the stacker plate is corrected by a subsequent paper at a portion facing the corner of the paper on the stacker plate. A device for organizing paper sheets, characterized in that it is configured to form an escape part to make it possible. (2) A regulating plate is installed in the inner part of the opening to prevent paper sheets fed into the paper sheet storage section from being caught in the conveying means. The paper sheet organizing device described in item 1). (3) The paper sheet organizing device according to claim (2), wherein the regulation plate is provided separately from the stacker plate. (4) The paper sheet organizing device according to claim (2), wherein the regulation plate is provided integrally with the stacker plate.